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Status
Released
Release
2021
Runtime
1h 36m
Available options inUS
"Nichelle Nichols changed the face of space"
Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.
18 Cast Members
Vivica A. Fox
Self
Michael Dorn
Self
Nichelle Nichols
Self
Ashley Eckstein
Self
George Takei
Self
Walter Koenig
Self
Lynn Whitfield
Self
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self
Jeremy Bulloch
Self
Pharrell Williams
Self
Reginald Hudlin
Selfz
Mae Jemison
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Al Sharpton
Self
Martin Luther King III
Self
Eugene Roddenberry
Self
Ed Dwight Jr.
Self
Ed Gordon
Self